No maps for these territories

I have been converting my blag archives, and have managed to learn far more about WordPress than I intended to, sigh. Further announcements shortly. I’ve been working on this piecemeal for a few days now.

Welcome to the world, Mr. Reed! Reed Javier Farkas Originally uploaded by librarianmer http://blog.wolfwater.com/2009/04/17/baby-reed/ Son of one of my many long-distance cohorts in crime for libraries and social software, Baby Reed arrived on April 17, just in time to have an nice long stretch before Mother’s Day. Congrats to Meredith (who I think many of [...]

Work (paid and unpaid) is hard, so I am going to take a moment to think about other things, and write about my favorite subject — dinner. I made Cobb salad for dinner last night, and it was delicious. I almost never buy iceberg lettuce (yes, I am a salad hipster) but the time seemed [...]

I am on jury duty. I got called in Monday, got chosen for the trial on Tuesday and we expect to be done by Friday. It’s been pretty quick — we’re actually already in deliberation. I find the whole experience very interesting, but also very stressful and sad. It’s a big responsibility. I would like [...]

identi.ca’s April Fool’s joke, in which they impersonated Twitter, was my favorite; though it took a pretty deep knowledge of microblogging politics to think it was funny. GMail’s isn’t bad either, though Google proper’s is a bit snarkier than usual. Long live April Fool’s jokes on the Internet! If you ever get committed to using [...]